[REQUEST] Blueprint protection

[anonymous_user_64c55f0b]

@TheJamsh;155742

I see no reason why you couldn’t build your content in C++ and distribute it without source code eventually though (when we get that functionality).

@TheJamsh;155742

Honestly though, there’s not much that can be done about it. ______ ___ supposed to be a flexible as possible, and I highly doubt that any _____ stuff sold on the marketplace wouldn’t need customizing and adapting to suit somebodies project. Otherwise we’ll end up with an awful lot of cloned games out there. Eventually of course the things you have learned and sold will be known by a much larger user-base and sales will decline, but that’s just the life cycle of anything you sell! It has a nice side-effect though, it pushes you to learn more cool things to teach the community

Blueprints are supposed to be as flexible as possible, but C++ is not? Blueprint stuff sold on the market will need customizing but C++ stuff will not? Are you kidding me?

So Blueprints should be open and extensible, but C++ should not? Tell me, did the source access for Unreal Engine mean anything to you when you signed up? It sure as hell did for me.

The Codedrop Song: Unreal Engine in 2001

[anon36098794]

@;155026

All I know is that if I buy content on the marketplace and it’s not clearly marked as having “protection”, I’m not going to be very happy about it.

Because the things you do to make it hard will only make it hard for PEOPLE WHO GIVE YOU MONEY. The pirates won’t be hindered for long, but the actual customers that want to follow the rules you set down are going to be hindered for the entire time they’re using it.

Guess I’m taking the climbing system off my “To Buy” list if you’re going to treat paying customers like scum.

I am going to treat paying customers like scum? Really? I am trying to provide the possible customers, a way to test it before buying. So, calm down.
You need some glasses! I said that this protection would be only for releasing demos, for people to try. When buying the product, it would go unprotected of course I don’t want to protect what I sell, but only the trial version. Get it?

“It would be nice if we have something like Blueprint protection. This way, people selling Blueprints on the marketplace, could share level demonstration for people to test what those Blueprints does without having access to it, before buying it anyway”

I would be better for everybody, if anyone could test it before buying, don’t you think? But for blueprints, if releasing it without any protection. Why would people buy it latter, if they would have access to everything with a demo?

Veovis, calm down man. Do understand how a trial software works or not? Is for people to try the software functionality without having access to all. People would test it, and if they like it, they would buy it then, and it would go without any protection.

[n00854180t]

I’m planning on doing some blueprint only marketplace projects. Personally I think, at least for now, it’s just going to be a matter of not having demos.

Even if there were a protection scheme in place, the code would have to know how to unpack it, meaning that it’s functionally unprotected anyway. I know that was mentioned and that it’d be better to have some protection than none, but these sorts of schemes are usually fairly complex… and ultimately not worth it because of how easy they are to get around.

For my part, I just look at it that anyone who pirates my projects probably wouldn’t have bought them anyway, so it’s kind of moot to dedicate time to it.